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I was composing a sentence and came up with a wonderful one-two punch, but when I sat down to write it, I couldn't remember the two. Here's the context: "I don't mean to say that conventional reading isn't fun, just that its dynamism is more tacit and _______." I think the word was along the lines of "implicit" and/or "supressed" and that it started with an S. Or it could be something entirely else because "tacit" sort of takes care of both "implicit" and "suppressed." GAH, I'm crazified!

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 21 November 2002 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

supadupa

― s trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 21 November 2002 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

chumpikitty

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 21 November 2002 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

amnesia

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 21 November 2002 08:20 (twenty-three years ago)

understated? although of course that doesn't start with an "s"

― C J (C J), Thursday, 21 November 2002 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

scrumdiddlyumptous?

― angela (angela), Thursday, 21 November 2002 08:54 (twenty-three years ago)

subliminal? subconscious?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 09:00 (twenty-three years ago)

succinct?

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 21 November 2002 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Sublime? Solipsistic?

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

subtle?

― gabriel (gabe), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

shit?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

ting

― bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

surreptitious? somnambulistic? sedate? fuck it, just put 'slivovitz'.

― angelo (angelo), Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Compressed? Compact?

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuzzy

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 November 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

what's 'dynamism'?

I would put 'implicit' in the blank because it almost rhymes and because it's usually a good word.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 21 November 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Subtextual. Er.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 November 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Subdued.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 21 November 2002 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Subterranean. Subcutaneous.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

but leee the word NEVER ends up actually beginning with the letter you think it does.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 November 2002 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

subjectif?

― dan (dan), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

squeaky?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i would lose "dynamism"

― dan (dan), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

implied?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Obviously I have been studying the dictionary in considerable depth until I found the mot juste, with great dedication, not resting until I found the perfect selection. I think the word you want is clearly 'aardvark'.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 21 November 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

somnambulsomsomsomnambulisticnambsomnambulisticulisticnambulisticistic

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

tisket a tasket

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

a bitch in a basket?

― Simeon (Simeon), Friday, 22 November 2002 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"Nebulous"!

Goodnight everybody! (Thanks to Dan who said "fuzzy" which reminded me.)

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 22 November 2002 06:26 (twenty-three years ago)

that doesn't start with an s, you can't fool us

― ron (ron), Friday, 22 November 2002 06:30 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

word to describe the area covered by troops on a battlefield, specifically the boundaries... lines of battle? halp

― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:55 (fifteen years ago)

flanks?

― con suelo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:01 (fifteen years ago)

that works! cheers

― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:02 (fifteen years ago)

uh isn't it called the battlefield?

― meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:03 (fifteen years ago)

war zone

― F-Unit (Ste), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:03 (fifteen years ago)

the flanks are the sides

― meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:04 (fifteen years ago)

specifically the boundaries...

― con suelo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:04 (fifteen years ago)

boundary at the front is not a flank

― meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:07 (fifteen years ago)

I mean the meaning would be the same as borderline except it would be fluid depending on where the troops are

I dunno

― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:09 (fifteen years ago)

vanguard, flanks and arse end

― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:10 (fifteen years ago)

battlespace?

― meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:18 (fifteen years ago)

boomzone

― conrad, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:22 (fifteen years ago)

zone of booms

― get a romo you two (dayo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:22 (fifteen years ago)

frontline

― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:25 (fifteen years ago)

fight area

― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

theater?

― StanM, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:02 (fifteen years ago)

battlefronts?

― restorin' my damn eyes (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

yea "battlefront" or just "front" even

― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

shit pit

― F-Unit (Ste), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:13 (fifteen years ago)

pitch

― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

arena

― F-Unit (Ste), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:20 (fifteen years ago)

All Quiet on the Western Boomzone

― a seminar on ass play for kids or something (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:20 (fifteen years ago)

The other day I was trying to think of the word for the name of what denizens of a certain country are called. For instance, the word for someone who lives in Andorra is "Andorran", but what is the word for what the word "Andorran" is?

― third-strongest mole (corey), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:22 (fifteen years ago)

nationality?

― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)

demonym

― StanM, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)

that's it, thank you.

― third-strongest mole (corey), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)

i knew very well that i was on the wrong track there tbh

― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

battlefronts?

― restorin' my damn eyes (jjjusten), Wednesday, October 6, 2010 11:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yea "battlefront" or just "front" even

― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, October 6, 2010 11:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yers, this is exactly it - ty

― dayo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

is there a word or phrase to describe the act of removing the primary description or context for something, leaving only the guts of it exposed? i know that makes zero sense, so three examples:

1) diving straight into the 7th page of a report, without reading the title, abstract, or any other information to provide context
2) watching a news segment starting in the middle, so you don't know what the actual story is but you're hearing analysis of it which assumes that you know the basic facts
3) a manuscript with the main text removed, and only the footnotes remain

― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 November 2014 21:03 (eleven years ago)

in media res

― 龜, Monday, 3 November 2014 21:04 (eleven years ago)

THANK YOU

― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 November 2014 21:06 (eleven years ago)

six years pass...

Is there a word or phrase for a priori argument/reasoning that has a pejorative shade? Basically I'm looking for a word for that thing that people do (largely white dudes it seems) where they just figure they can reason out the answer to something because they are smart even though it's way outside their lane/experience.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:42 (four years ago)

And I don't mean "mansplaining," I mean more the kind of thinking that often underlies mansplaining

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:42 (four years ago)

What, like the Dunning-Kruger effect?

― pomenitul, Monday, 19 April 2021 19:54 (four years ago)

vox-y

― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:11 (four years ago)

Not exactly. I'm thinking of when people say stuff like "Well if the virus is airborne then that should mean ____" although they have no expertise in viruses and don't have any data or study to back up the "____," or "cryptocurrency will obviously benefit the poor because they are largely unbanked," with no understanding of what the financial life of a poor person is actually like. Like the fallacy that you can figure out how things in the real world would/should work just by thinking about them.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:30 (four years ago)

"Well if the virus is airborne then that should mean ____"

feeling a bit seen here.

― Scheming politicians are captivating, and it hurts (ledge), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:34 (four years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#See_also

― pomenitul, Monday, 19 April 2021 20:36 (four years ago)

Opined?

― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:43 (four years ago)

or pontificate maybe

― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:55 (four years ago)

galaxy brain

― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:59 (four years ago)

Winging it?

― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Monday, 19 April 2021 21:00 (four years ago)

^ that's what I do all the time anyway

― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Monday, 19 April 2021 21:01 (four years ago)

making shit up

― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Monday, 19 April 2021 21:02 (four years ago)

presumptuous

― Evan, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:04 (four years ago)

talking shite

― calzino, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:12 (four years ago)

unmitigated effrontery

― Evan, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:19 (four years ago)

dipshittery

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 April 2021 21:25 (four years ago)

audacious uppityness

― Evan, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:28 (four years ago)

Is there a word or phrase for a priori argument/reasoning that has a pejorative shade? Basically I'm looking for a word for that thing that people do (largely white dudes it seems) where they just figure they can reason out the answer to something because they are smart even though it's way outside their lane/experience.

I like "tendentious" for this.

Tendentious, to me, means that you have a toolbox of explanations that you revert to all the time. You have a lens you see almost everything through. You have a group of conclusions that you steer almost everything toward.

It's not necessarily bad, though. You could theoretically be tendentious about empathy or social justice or antiracism or critiquing capitalism, for example.

― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 April 2021 22:28 (four years ago)

Conversational or possibly confident or unwary?

Its to imbue the perjorative thats tricky obv, im sure you will find the right ppl here for that tho

― flagpost fucking (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 00:41 (four years ago)

low grade pomposity?

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:04 (four years ago)

Dadsplaining

― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Rrose (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:36 (four years ago)

Oh wait, that was already ruled out, essentially

― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Rrose (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:36 (four years ago)

rationality poisoning

― rob, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:38 (four years ago)

rationality poisoning feels sort of close. Maybe there just isn't a word for this. I feel like it's a particular type of fallacy or cognitive error maybe?

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 16:35 (four years ago)

To me it sounds like you're describing people who think they can use (their idea of) reason to logically solve any and all problems--basically people who have absorbed a flattened popular narrative about the irrefutable correctness of Enlightenment philosophy + possibly also a confused understanding of the scientific method. So, I'd be pleasantly stunned if there were a formal logical fallacy term for that, as I mostly encounter those fallacy terms when rationality-poisoned people deploy them on social media. The kind of psychological theory that developed the idea of "cognitive biases" also seems too close to the target IMO, as it relies on a perhaps unspoken notion of ideal or correct cognitive processes grounded in logic, but I'm admittedly swerving way out of my lane on that.

If you were in certain corners of academia you could just dismiss this as "liberal humanism" and everyone would know a) what you meant and b) why it was a problem.

― rob, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:17 (four years ago)

"armchair ________"

― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:09 (four years ago)

"holding forth on ______" can also have this connotation tho it wants context to work, i think

― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:09 (four years ago)

six months pass...

I need a word that's a bit like "prescient" but not necessarily predicting the future, more like, "uncanny", "coincidental", "ironic" - something that has a pleasing logic or relationship to another thing.

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 12:15 (four years ago)

are you thinking of 'apt'?

― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 12:17 (four years ago)

I suppose... Maybe something a little more preternatural, like a slightly spooky relationship or cosmic link

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 12:52 (four years ago)

Apt or aptness will do on this instance though, thanks!

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 12:53 (four years ago)

serendipitous?

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 12:58 (four years ago)

Prophetic?

― that of a giant Slor (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:19 (four years ago)

the word "synchronicity" comes to mind, but there isn't really an adjective form, is there? Synchronous doesn't convey the same meaning.

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:35 (four years ago)

kismetty
synchronicitous

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:37 (four years ago)

Hauntological

― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:55 (four years ago)

Felicitous

Beneficent

― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:58 (four years ago)

^^^ I don’t actually like either of these words as they kind of sneak in authorial special pleading. And they remind me of the use of beloved that I hate: “one of Britain’s most beloved thinkers’ to describe a newspaper columnist.

― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:05 (four years ago)

ugh dog latin i feel like I know what word you're thinking of

but all my brain is coming up with is "it's like poetry, they rhyme"

― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:16 (four years ago)

serendipitous is as close as it gets so far i think!!

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:40 (four years ago)

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